Beauty Calls to You: This Timeless passage from the Tao-Te-Ching will Brighten Your Day!

The second passage from this, the foundational text of Chinese Taoism, speaks of beauty and the art of success through embracing the Eternal.

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Passage 2

When all the world recognizes beauty as beauty, this in itself is ugliness.
When all the world recognizes good as good, this in itself is evil.
Indeed, the unknown and the manifest give birth to each other.

Therefore, having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short contrast each other.
High and low set measure to each other.
Voice and sound harmonize each other.
Front and back follow one another.

Therefore, the Sage goes about doing nothing, accomplishing everything.
And spreads his teaching without talking.
He denies nothing to the teeming things.

He rears everything but lays no claim to them.
He does his work, but sets no store by it.
He accomplishes his task but does not dwell upon it.
Creating, yet not possessing,
Working, yet not taking credit,
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore, it lasts forever.

- Inspired by translations from John C. H. Wu (1961) and GIA-FU FENG AND JANE ENGLISH (1972)